Introduction to AI

1.2 The Turing Test

 The Turing Test
• Mr. Alan Turing one of
the famous computer
scientists proposed the
Turing Test in the year
1950.
• He proposed that the
Turing test is used to
determine “whether or
not machines can
think intelligently like
humans?"
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• The basic configuration of Turing test is that
there will be a human interrogator on one
side of the wall and the other side a machine
and a human.
• The interrogator is going to ask a question
via teletype; both the machine and human
present on the other side will answer to the
question via teletype.
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• The interrogator should be able distinguish
between the machine and human
responses.
• If he can not be able to distinguish (the
answers provided by the machine or the
human) then the machine passes the test
and the machine is considered as intelligent
(or thinking intelligently like humans).
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• “I believe that in about fifty years time it will
be possible to programme computers with a
storage capacity of about 109 to make them
play the imitation game so well that an
average interrogator will not have more than
70 per cent chance of making the right
identification after five minutes of
questioning.”
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• No machine has passed the Turing Test, yet.

• Loebner Prize established in 1990

– $100,000 and a gold medal will be awarded
to the first computer whose responses are
indistinguishable from a human's
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• For a computer to pass the Turing test, it should
possess the following capabilities:
1. Natural language processing to enable it to
communicate successfully in English (or some other
human language);
2. Knowledge representation to store information
provided before or during the interrogation;
3. Automated reasoning to use the stored information to
answer questions and to draw new conclusions;
4. Machine learning to adapt to new circumstances and to
detect and extrapolate patterns.
5. Computer vision to perceive objects, and
6. Robotics to manipulate objects and move them about.
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• Check out the following links, they might deepen your
appreciation and understanding of the Turing Test.

• http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/turing_test/turing_test_fl
ash_long.php

• http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/turing_test/turing_test_c
urric_long.php?modGUI=211&compGUI=1875&itemGUI=3276

• https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/09/turing-test-e
ugene-goostman

• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/09/eugene-